BOYCE, Louise 1926 - 2015

BOYCE, FLOWER, LORAINE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 12/6/2015 at 12:32:30

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Friday, November 27, 2015
Page 8

Louise BOYCE

Louise BOYCE, fine artist and Professor of Fashion Illustration, at the Fashion Institute of Technology (81-98), NYC, died on Thursday, November 19th at St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of complications from thrombosis. She was 89.

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on April 9, 1926, to Kenneth Wallace FLOWER and the former Elizabeth LORAINE, her father, an avid fisherman insured that her summers were spent at the 59th Street Beach, Ocean City, New Jersey, where she learned to sail and body surf.

After attending Moore College of Art and Design for Women, she recounted the day that she received her first paycheck for illustrating fashion at Litt Brothers Department Store in Philadelphia. She went throughout the store trying to find someone she could thank for paying her to have so much fun.

She moved to Niagra (sic) Falls, New York in the mid 1940's as illustrator at the local department store. While there, she took up skiing. After returning to Philadelphia in 1950, she married John BOYCE, jokester, who was working in the same Real Estate sales office, as her comedian brother, Kenneth.

She began her married life at the Mayfair House on Lincoln Drive. The couple then moved to Fallsington, Pennsylvania, a historically restored Quaker village in Bucks County, where she pursued her finest career as World Class Mother. The natural beauty of the area also inspired her landscape painting. A gifted portrait artist, she was known for capturing the best essence of the person.

Herself an avid reader and proponent of libraries, she served for 40 years on the Board of Directors of the Fallsington Library Company, one of the first book lending companies in the nation.

During the 1960's, she was the house fashion illustrator for Nevius-Vorhees Department store in Trenton, New Jersey. Her devotion to her work imperturbable, she recounted walking through the '67 riots in that city, past police barricades, to return merchandise she'd drawn and to make that evening's advertising deadline.

She passed on her enthusiasm for her craft to her many students. In 1978, she returned to Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA. where she continued her studies toward a teaching degree. She then taught fashion illustration at the Tracy Warner School of Fashion Design, in Philadelphia. Next. onto the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she began a 15 year commute into NYC.

After retiring from teaching, she moved to a small town in the Midwest, Fairfield, Iowa, where she opened a private art gallery, in her home.

In 2010, she became wheelchair bound and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lived with her son John, and his wife Linda. She remained, always cheerful, always friendly and a regular attendee of the Santa Fe Opera.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John, and her brother Kenneth, of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She is survived, by her daughter, Carolyn BOYCE of Fairfield, Iowa, and her son, John BOYCE of Lamy, New Mexico.

Plans are being made for a private memorial celebration of her life to be held next summer in the surf at Ocean City, New Jersey.

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